Hi all,
Good news indeed!
Perhaps we should appreciate that the negotiations needed to be a bit longer in order to produce such a short statement.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
This has often been attributed to Mark Twain, but not on Wikisource. There it is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
My little internet search revealed no proper references to Twain, rather some casting doubt that he ever used it.
I feel we would do better to thank the board for taking the time and trouble of getting such a short and direct summary of the result.
all the best
Fabian (User:Leutha)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:19:28 +0000 From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia Message-ID: CALTQcccUeB-FRu5QQ_nHxhR2bwHPS7s1giLiMarj47SHvOS-Xw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
On Feb 9, 2013 6:02 PM, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 February 2013 17:41, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
This is great news. Well the fuller announcement include an
explanation
of
why this took so long? It sounds like a very straightforward
agreement...
You were on the board and don't remember the speed of charities?
Do you realise just how long this has taken?